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Politicians need to stop crying wolf. A civil society emerges from truth.

If we truly want microschools to thrive, we must start funding them as serious enterprises, not side projects.

This capacity for indignation over minor inconveniences is perhaps our greatest luxury. To come from a place so organized, so systematized, so relentlessly functional that a gate change feels like chaos? That’s not a character flaw. It’s extraordinary fortune.

Loving kindness is not dead. Sometimes it is only sleeping.

Crime disenfranchises EVERYONE, whether you live in the vicinity of it or not. Huntsville, Vestavia Hills, Mobile, and every smaller community in between pays for Montgomery’s issues; therefore, it should be a state-level concern.

This shutdown is not a failure of bipartisan cooperation; it is the result of one party refusing to govern responsibly. It’s time for Democrats to stop holding the country hostage and put the American people first.

It's past time to remove these antiquated, special-interest laws that keep needed care out of Alabama communities.

Whether we’re talking about Covid lockdowns or digital ID, politicians prey upon the gullible and delegitimize critical thinkers – because we’re dangerous. Questioning what we’re being “forced” to do is unacceptable to totalitarians.

The solution to our economic strain isn’t another bailout or rebate – it’s restraint. We should be cutting spending before cutting checks, focusing on real productivity rather than political optics, and letting the markets, not Washington, determine winners and losers.

Quantico wasn’t just a meeting; it was a manifesto. A clarion call to purge the poison, reclaim our edge, and remind every single American in uniform that the softness of recent administrations kills. 

Military veterans deserve more than simple words of gratitude – they deserve timely, effective care, especially when it comes to mental health.

Federal troops for local law enforcement? That raises some difficult issues.

Politics alone could never liberate us from sin and death – and is more often a uniquely powerful temptation to sin and death rather than liberation. 

Alabama Republican Women's clubs are enlarging their footprint and increasing their influence across the state.

Democrats will weaponize the IRS to get more of your money, then shut down government with demands to spend more of your money. Make that make sense. You can’t.

If you’re a Republican, you need to stop using the word democracy. That’s because the term doesn’t mean what you think it does.

It’s time to replace the AHSAA. Any organization that openly breaks the law, ignores parents, and harms children’s opportunities has lost the right to lead.

Christian nationalism isn’t some fringe idea – it’s the heartbeat of a nation waking up, a nation that remembers it’s one nation under God, not under the thumb of elitists who hate Christendom and offer you a secular monotheistic belief in man’s government as a spiritual deity. 

It was only an experiment. I wanted to see if I could change America in only one day by being the nicest person on earth for 24 hours.

The Epstein files matter. They’re not gossip. They’re not a distraction. They’re evidence. And whether they prove the story was overblown or confirm a scandal, Americans deserve to have transparency.

CON laws do not benefit patients. Instead, they artificially suppress the growth of the healthcare market and contribute to increased prices and decreased access.

They had shared this experience: the hope, the heartbreak, the inexplicable loyalty to something larger than themselves. They had learned that to love anything – a team, a person, a dream – is to accept the risk of loss.

Last week’s municipal elections in Alabama underscored an important truth about our state’s political culture: when given a choice between liberal and conservative values voters overwhelmingly choose conservatism.

Charlie Kirk’s death was beautiful. This is why there’s been such an outpouring of emotion, even from people who we wouldn’t expect. Our world is so dark, so beauty-starved, that people saw what happened and were moved by it in the deepest ways imaginable.

What started out as Clinton’s folly became Clinton’s success as economic development from the Erie Canal increased trade, prosperity, and tax revenues. 

I’ve often thought that the underlying message of “Lord of the Rings” is that sometimes the Lord takes an ordinary person like Bilbo Baggins, calling him to play a pivotal role in a cosmic struggle between forces of good and evil, the dimensions and consequences of which he was previously unaware. 

I hope that every student and every adult can let Friday night’s truth settle into their bones … you must never give up the good fight, not until the clock reads zero.